Quotes about anvils
anvils hammers not-afraid
Charles Spurgeon The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
family everyday anvils
Charles R. Swindoll A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
inspirational preparation anvils
Edwin Markham For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
men anvils opinion
Charles Spurgeon The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
fate justice anvils
Aeschylus The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
waiting cartoon anvils
Angie Harmon I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
criticism hammers anvils
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
jobs heart anvils
Dinaw Mengestu I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.
anxiety survival anvils
T. D. Jakes When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
lying iron anvils
Robert Jordan Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
government president anvils
Hubert H. Humphrey Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
thinking apples anvils
Isaac Newton Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
work heart anvils
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
anvils firmness stand-firm
Ignatius of Loyola Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
hammers anvils
Erwin Rommel I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
poetry anvils ill
Horace And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
real anvils hammers
George Orwell In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...
hammers anvils needs
Neal A. Maxwell Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
life deeds anvils
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
anvils hammers masters
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
style anvils terrible
Emile Zola One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
hammers anvils
Emily Dickinson It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
luck anvils faces
Lloyd Alexander Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
country anvils facts
Leland Stanford The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
fall anvils entertainment
John Calvin This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
people anvils virtue
Freya Stark I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
peace light anvils
Pindar Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
truth tongue anvils
Pindar Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
men anvils france
Voltaire In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.